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So it runs a game from 2013 at a little over the minimum acceptable FPS. What was the FPS of those other ones?
Yeah I mean it's very little money but also a very low bar.
So to be fear about what this article is about: someone bought an x86 machine from China and installed Linux on it. Is that right?
I happen to just watch the actul video the article reffering to yesterday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJ6ghjRBFGQ
Thanks for the link, the video was pretty interesting!
For what it's worth, you can have your very own 4U rack-mount chassis with a dozen of these in it for around a grand.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/186249007611 https://www.ebay.com/itm/357827557706
Less than a hundred bucks each, and no need to rig up janky power and cooling.
Not that I think you necessarily should, but the option is always there.
Idk, 1k for 192GB of GDDR6 vram for running LLMs seems pretty good to me lmao
Had the same thought
The available RAM is pretty anemic, but that sounds pretty cheap for a fully functional PC with a GPU. It mentions an RDNA2 GPU, which that family apparently has had successfully TensorFlow-DirectML running on it.
Electricity consumption would be an issue, but I wonder if these would make good machine learning training compute nodes.
Perfect platform for playing anything thats not ultra bleeding edge high performance.
and lets face it, theres a hundred thousand more of those games, than there are of the ultra bleeding edge games.
For gaming I wonder if it could be underclocked and undervolted to get the power consumption down. Since its essentially RAM starved for alot of other games, it may not be able to take full advantage of the CPU/GPU and a slowed-down, but lower power consumption unit, might still play games of certain era's just fine.